matthewsemple
Apr-12-2008, 11:07 GMT
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| Paul explained it once in a BBC interview in 1988:
`I found myself writing a song called ´Graceland´, and I really was resistant to it. I didn´t want to write a song called ´Graceland´, but I couldn´t get rid of it. It just stayed with me and then I thought maybe I´m going to write a song about Graceland and I really don´t know really what I´m writing about yet. And it probably makes sense to go there and see if in fact what I´m looking for is in Graceland. I was in Lafayette, Louisiana, and I drove up to Northern Lousiana to the Mississippi Delta, and up to Mississippi, and then up to Memphis. That trip was the opening verse of the song. To me it was a father-and-son trip, and I don´t know whether I´m writing about : me and my son ? or me and my father ? It doesn´t really matter, it´s all mixed up, the same. And it´s about a reconciliation, a reconciliation with a big event in a life : losing Love. And the setting of Elvis Presley´s home is like a pilgrimage for peopleâ?.
He also went on to say that he never actually went there with his son. |
